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Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) - name also transliterated Chayim Nachman Bialik

Poet, translator, essayist, storyteller, editor, one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time.

Bialik is considered Israel's national poet, although he did not live to witness the birth of the State of Israel. Several of his poems have been set to music and gained wide popularity as songs. Some of his works Bialik wrote in Yiddish but most of his important writings are in Hebrew.

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In many poems Bialik depicted the suffering of his people, but he also could ridicule the weakness and passivity of his fellow intellectuals.

You have not changed, you're antic old, There's nothing new I think; Friends, let me join your club, well rot Together till we stink.

(from 'On My Return')

Hayyim Nahman Bialik was born in Radi, in Volhynia, Russia. He was the youngest of seven children of Reb Yitzok Yoissef Bialik, a scholar and unsuccessful businessman, and Dinah (Priveh) Bialik